May I Swipe the Dropbox?

 

One of the very few pains of being at ISB is the continuous, unhealthy and hostile barrage of assignment submissions we have to face every other day.

For those of you who are not well-acquainted with this intricate method of torture that is being imposed on us poor souls, let me shed some light on it.

The first four days of the week we have our classes and from Thursday evening to Saturday evening, it's party time. When I say party time - I mean that we have a party (loads of boozing and random dancing) during the weekend - not that we can chillax throughout the weekend.

So that we don't enjoy ourselves too much (dunno why it should be considered such a bad thing) our professors diligently ensure that we have enough work in the form of case analyses or a truckload of mathematical problems to solve throughout the week and especially in the weekends.

As the deadline for assignment submission approaches, the population density in the library and the atrium markedly increases - innocent guys facing testing times stoically.

Printers start getting busy and start failing due to overload. Frustrated groups of students hang around them checking their print jobs in the printer queue. IT Services guys start getting d-looks from us.

And then when finally the much awaited prints come out, it's a total mess figuring out who gave which print. Finally the right ones are assembled and we head towards the "blue dropbox" kept for submission of assignments. Sometimes they get jammed with an overload of assignments too.

For the last month - this naughty idea has been haunting me. Whenever I see those blue boxes (i.e. when I go to drop my assignment), there's this tremendous itch to take off with them. Or just hide it somewhere. To finish this instrument of torture for ever. I know it's wishful thinking ... they'll just get some more of them.

But even then it will be fun to see my friends searching for dropboxes in the middle of the night, calling up TAs from their sleep or whatever they might be up to, TAs searching for new dropboxes and all kinds of other fun happening while I giggle away to glory :)

 

Samik

Class of 2007